Gutted
Had to rip out about seven inches of sweater front this lunchtime because I'd forgotten to put in the armhole shaping. That's over 50g of wool undone, a whole week of work pulled out in 20 minutes. I'd thought I was doing so well.
More issues
NaNoWriMo 2006
We went to the kick off party for St Louis NaNoWriMo Sunday afternoon. They want me to write. I told them I have a sweater to finish but they want me to write. The galling thing is that after a whole year with no story idea, I finally got mugged
Eternal Sweater progress report II
This is the end of my second week knitting just the Eternal Sweater. Today I got to the neck divide, which means I am 10 rows and one sleeve away from finishing a project I started in 1994! I'm pretty confident I have enough yarn left now. That&
Pet Shop Boys!
Hubby got us tickets for the Pet Shop Boys concert at the
Pageant last night, part of their Fundamental tour. It was fantastic! Felt more like a party than a concert, and we met some interesting people. They played old stuff and new stuff, and some really old stuff, and
Cloak of invisibility
BBC News: Experts create invisibility cloak.
A US-British team of scientists has successfully tested a cloak of invisibility in the laboratory. The device hid a small copper cylinder from passing microwaves in tests at Duke University in North Carolina. It works by deflecting the microwaves around the object and
Eternal Sweater progress report
Finished the trailing fuchsia lace scarf on Weds 18th, and put the front of the Eternal Sweater in my backpack for lunchtime knitting. This is now my sole project in progress, I'll post next Friday how I'm doing with it. Each row is 118 stitches and
Blog the Country II
BBC News: Blog project reveals daily lives.
More than 30,000 people across Britain have recorded a diary of their day as part of a project to create an online snapshot of life in the country. The National Trust said the entries - which range from the mundane to the extraordinary
Progress at last
Did 11 rows on the Eternal Sweater on Saturday, which completed the second pattern repeat on the front, and some more tonight. Feels good to pick it up again, I think the last time I worked on it was December 2005. The double moss stitch wasn't so bad
Blog the Country
BBC News: 'Mass blog' to
capture UK Tuesday
.
People throughout the country are being asked to contribute to a mass web log recording a day in the life of Britain. Tuesday 17 October has been picked as an "ordinary day much like any other of no particular
Shannon Okey and the spinning questions
Spin to Knit, written by Shannon Okey, came out in October 2006, and Shannon agreed to do a beginning spinner's question and answer session on Quantum Tea as the last stop on her blog tour! Some of these are my own questions, some were submitted by people reading